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post by John Hoff
Reality Is A Harsh Mental Taskmistress
Sometimes the best way to untangle the kinks in consensus reality is to first approach matters in a hypothetical way, and then compare how things would go in your sensible hypothetical to the way things are going in reality.
That's a pretty obtuse abstract sentence, isn't it? Well, allow me to demonstrate.
Hypothetical Gangs At Imaginary War
In a hypothetical "West Minneapolis," there is a young guy who calls himself Wyoming TheRealBoss, and proclaims himself "Bossman" of a group called "The Rock Boyz." On his InstaPic account, Wyoming (whose legal name is Gavell Nordon) posts pictures of his firearms and issues written challenges to unnamed enemies, always declaring himself part of the "Rock Boyz."
At the same time, in the same town, there is a guy named Jimmy John Dole, who proclaims affiliation with...
